On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo - Softcover

Friedrich Nietzsche

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679724621 ISBN 13: 9780679724629

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989

Synopsis

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience.

About this title

About the Author:

Douglas Smith is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Warwick. He is currently preparing a book on the reception of Nietzsche in France.

Synopsis:

Presents and analyzes two major works on ethics, dealing with morality, goodness, guilt, and ascetic ideals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0679724621
• ISBN 13: 9780679724629
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384